单词 | self-parodying |
释义 | self-parodyingadj. Expressing or characterized by self-parody; that intentionally or inadvertently parodies one's usual behaviour, speech, or characteristics. Cf. self-parodic adj. ΚΠ 1946 P. Larkin Jill 13 Never having heard before this self-parodying Southern coo. 1985 D. Wallace Chaucer & Early Writings Boccaccio iii. 39 He was willing..to compose a humorous, self-parodying piece in the local dialect,..depicting himself as one who ‘does nothing by day nor by night except write’. 1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) Feb. 71/1 The B-pool of pathetic, self-parodying former beauty queens propped up by surgery and cosmetics. 2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 June 32 A nicely judged, self-parodying quip that simultaneously gently skewered the commentariat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1946 |
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